Remember when shrieking kids invaded your
restaurant
oasis, yowling for more desserts? Just Tea
Partiers in training?Perhaps good parents
interceded, dragging ear-splitters from center stage and cut the
sugar addiction.
Though families still moderate small-time irrationality, this is not the case in North Carolina: there,
a frustrated restaurateur posted: "Screaming children will not be
tolerated."

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Not at all so easy nationally, with spitfires
of tantrum throwers called "kamikaze Republicans," willing to
destroy America to
save it.Or the rogue Florida pastor
who needs to read more holy books, not burn any. Or
the shamelessly bigoted, one-note opportunists dictating to
diverse New Yorkers about religious tolerance.

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Don't expect tough love or compelling
reprimands from this politest
of presidents, even-tempered to a fault. Though
soaring passionately when his election was on the
line, Mr. Obama remains weirdly sluggish as fellow Democrats face
doom.Nor will borderline, Blue Dog
Democrats
provide any stirring parental intercession, so scared spitless
they barely peep.

Protesters hot, president cold

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Oddly, while white-hot GOP roustabouts invent
countless job-stealing,
bomb-throwing threats under every Koran, NY corner, or headless
desert cactus,
this detached president proceeds as if without enemies.Right, those nasty tire slashers polishing
off up two successful years of character obliteration on Obama's
birthplace, religion, and
legislative achievements just curiously disagree with his
philosophy or
remain immune to his charms.

For a decade, Robert S. Becker's rebel-rousing essays on politics and culture analyze overall trends, messaging and frameworks, now featured author at OpEdNews, Nation of Change and RSN. He appears regularly at Dissident Voice, with credits (more...)